Friday, June 28, 2013

The Ashes of Pasolini

THE ASHES OF PASOLINI

“But while I own history,it owns me; it illumines me.But what use is such a light?”—Pier Paolo Pasolini, TheAshes of Gramsci ____________________Life and literature—Pasolini bound themtogether so close thatHe confused them—canceling each otherout like Dante_____________Pasolini was reborn—as a civil poet with his own InfernoSomething like us—our new gay utopia a negative theology